At 07:18 PM 4/15/99 -0600, Andrew Dalke wrote:

Amos Latteier amos@aracnet.com said:

...

I noticed that distutils installs itself under 'lib\site-packages' which does not seem to be a convention under NT, at least the directory does not exist by default, and is not in the Python path by default.

It directory is added by site.py, which is imported when you start python (unless you use "python -S"). Quoting from it: | This will append site-specific paths to to the module search path. On | Unix, it starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and | appends lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python. | On other platforms (mainly Mac and Windows), it uses just sys.prefix | (and sys.exec_prefix, if different, but this is unlikely). The | resulting directories, if they exist, are appended to sys.path, and | also inspected for path configuration files.

Exactly. On Windows, the site directory is just sys.exec_prefix, rather than sys.exex_prefix/lib/python<version>/site-packages.

So now we need additional fixes to distutils to handle this platform difference.

Anyway, lib's "site-packages" is the official place for installing Python packages.

On Unix ;-)

from your patch:

...

g['LIBDEST']=os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "Lib")
g['BINLIBDEST']=os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "Lib")

Is that really "Lib" or just "lib"? Granted, it is NT which means I know nearly diddly about it.

I guess it should be 'lib'. I don't know. I just used 'Lib' cause that's what the some other Python path directories (set in the registry) call it...

OK, here's two patches, one to handle the site-package platform differences, another repeat of my last one, only this time with 'lib', not 'Lib'

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/distutils/distutils/sysconfig.py,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -r1.5 sysconfig.py 131,132c131,140 < < ---

def _init_nt(): """Initialize the module as appropriate for NT""" g=globals() # load config.h, though I don't know how useful this is parse_config_h(open( os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "include", "config.h")), g) # set basic install directories g['LIBDEST']=os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "lib") g['BINLIBDEST']=os.path.join(sys.exec_prefix, "lib")

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del _init_nt

RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/distutils/distutils/command/install.py,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -r1.1 install.py 110d109 < 112,113c111,115 < self.install_site_lib = \ < os.path.join (self.install_lib, 'site-packages') ---

        if os.sep == '/':
            self.install_site_lib = \
                os.path.join (self.install_lib, 'site-packages')
        else:
            self.install_site_lib = self.exec_prefix

118,120c120,124 < self.install_site_platlib = \ < os.path.join (self.install_lib, 'site-packages') < ---

        if os.sep == '/':
            self.install_site_platlib = \
                os.path.join (self.install_lib, 'site-packages')
        else:
            self.install_site_platlib = self.exec_prefix

With these patches distutils installs itself correctly on NT for me.

-Amos